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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.
Closed Syllable
Tactile
RTI
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
2. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning
MSL
Reading Comprehension Support
Texas Education Code 28.06
Grade equivalents
3. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Towre
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
4. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy
Funding
Direct Instruction
ALTA
Diphthong
5. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Cedilla
Mastery level
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
6. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
Sight Words
Trigraph
Accent
Simultaneous teaching
7. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.
Top-down Reading Approach
Diphthong
ALTA
Visual Processing
8. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag
The Norman Conquest
Raw score
Fluency
Vr
9. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi
Tilde
CTOPP
GORT
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
10. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally
Auditory Learners
Visual Processing
Direct Instruction
Anglo Saxon
11. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)
Composite Score
Top-down Reading Approach
VV
Texas Education Code 38.003
12. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.
Middle English
Curriculum referenced tests
ALTA
Visual Processing
13. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.
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14. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer
Derivative
Criterion-Referenced Test
Morphology
Comprehension
15. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Ability
Standard Scores
IMSLEC
16. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Comprehension
V >
Base Word
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
17. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy
Open Syllable
Fluency
Base Word
Funding
18. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.
ESL
Synthetic Instruction
Accommodation
Cedilla
19. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Composite Score
Phonology
VAKT
20. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language
Syntax
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Morpheme
Auditory Processing
21. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Morphology
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Cognitive Assessment
22. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile
Orthography
VAKT
Grade equivalents
CTOPP
23. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.
Auditory Processing
Prefix
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Grade equivalents
24. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
Sight Words
Raw score
Prefix
Three Layers of Language
25. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
NICHD
Matthew Effect
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Old English
26. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Samuel T. Orton
Synthetic Instruction
Modification
MSLE
27. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds
Chall's Stage 0
Linguistic Method
Battery
Chall's Stage 3
28. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin
Texas Education Code 38.003
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Chall's Stage 4
Great Vowel Shift
29. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
Chall's Stage 1
Semantics
Phonological Awareness
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
30. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
Open Syllable
Multisensory
IEP
Greek layer of language
31. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language
Auditory Learners
Prefix
Receptive language
Multi-Sensory Approach
32. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
Reliability
Six basic types of syllables
Open Syllable
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
33. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Diphthong
Battery
34. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.
Chall's Stage 5
Standard Scores
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Semantics
35. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
Cognitive Assessment
IMSLEC
Orthography
Auditory Processing
36. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound
Phonological Awareness
Chall's Stage 3
Cognitive Assessment
Vowel Digraph
37. Multisensory Structured Language
Syntax
Syllable
MSL
Analytic
38. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
WIATII
Direct Instruction
Components of Reading Instruction
Social language
39. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
Mastery level
Texas Education Code 28.06
Mathew Effect
Criterion referenced tests
40. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships
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41. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Chall's Stage 4
Chall's Stage 5
Oral Language
Percentile
42. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.
SBOE
Great Vowel Shift
Breve
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
43. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Texas Education Code 38.003
ADHD
Battery
Criterion referenced tests
44. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.
Battery
Attention
Anglo Saxon
MSL
45. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Grade equivalents
Impulsivity
V-e
Sight Words
46. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
CTOPP
Accuracy
Letter naming Chart
Auditory Learners
47. Academic Language Therapy Association
Modification
Analytic
ALTA
Dyslexia
48. State Board of Eduation
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Vr
SBOE
Synthetic Instruction
49. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with
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50. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl
Whole Language
Mathew Effect
Components of Reading Instruction
Tactile